Nicholas Bell

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Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), FIPRESCI, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2023: The Beast (Bonello) Poor Things (Lanthimos), Master Gardener (Schrader). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.

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7500 | Review

Code Known: Gordon-Levitt Shines in Intense Procedural Thriller from Vollrath We’ve seen plenty of big budget Hollywood films dealing with airplane hijackings, to which sensitivity...

The Girl with a Bracelet | Review

Murder was the Case That They Gave Her: Demoustier Delivers a Chilly Courtroom Thriller While it’s far from the first film to examine the popular,...

Mr. Jones | Review

Truth Be Told: Holland Revisits the Horror of the Holodomor Polish director Agnieszka Holland returns to a subject matter favored in her most memorable offerings—lost...

Miss Juneteenth | Review

Queens Without a Crown: Peoples Mines Strength and Resilience in Quiet Drama “I learned the truth at seventeen/That love was meant for beauty queens,” Janis...

Surrender the Pink: Deutch’s Debut a Dated Vintage “Pretty in Pink” (1986) | Blu-ray Review

The films of John Hughes and the resulting compendium of actors who starred in them, lovingly remembered as the Brat Pack, define a particular...

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2026 Cannes: Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard Selected for Cannes Premiere (!?)

There was no mention this morning for a film...

2026 Cannes: Mysius, Kreutzer, Harari, Grisebach, Herry, Bourgeois-Taquet Among New Faces in the Palme d’Or Comp

A competition section of (currently) twenty-one features with, according...

2026 Cannes: Nicolas Winding Refn, Quentin Dupieux & Bertrand Mandico on the Croisette

The Out of Competition, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Premiere and...
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